Héctor Serrano Studio
Sofa Lamp
Client: Moooi
Collaboration: Culdesac
Inspired by the iconic Chester Sofa, the Sofa Lamp takes its recognizable aesthetics out of context and re-interprets it.
The essence of the Chester is maintained and adapted to lightin.
It creates a lamp that through its design and connotation transmits all the social values of this emblematic piece of furniture, in addition to the natural attraction of the light effect itself.
Library of Dust
New book Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel, published by Chronicle Books.
In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves.
After doing some research into the story, Maisel got in touch with the hospital administrators – the same hospital, it turns out, where they once filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – and he was granted access to the room in which the canisters were stored.
In order to deal with the fragility of the objects, and to respect their funerary origins, Maisel set up a temporary photography studio inside the hospital itself. There, he began photographing the canisters one by one.
He soon realized that they looked almost earthlike, terrestrial: green and blue coastal forms and island landscapes outlined against a black background. But it was all mineralogy: terrains of rare elements self-reacting in the dark.
From http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/library-of-dust.html
Moistscape
As an opportunity to explore the play of the natural within the artificial, we constructed a three-dimensional steel matrix inset with panels of living mosses and enclosed within by translucent volume.
The matrix emerges from the walls and hovers over a groundscape of recycled rubber, which is as springy and giving underfoot as the mosses are to the touch of a hand.
The spatial configuration of these verdant planes – they vary in size, height and proximity to the visitor – creates a range of possible encounters. There is no designated path to follow, rather a space to explore where the underside is as telling as the topside. Moistscape allows visitors to experience the play in scale from the miniature of the floating mossy landscape to the actual one of the installation as a whole.
Design / Fabrication: Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, Corey Yurkovich
Assistant: Andrei Pogany
Photography: Ron Amstutz
Housing
Housing remains one of the worlds most critical issues. Prototype houses in Chile.
Tags: architecture.humanity
Spin
Always love the work of Spin from UK. Super simple application of great type and print techniques.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo
The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche) blublu.org/ blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm music by Andrea Martignoni produced by Mercurio Film assistant: Sibe
UNIQLOCK
Winning Gold in Online Advertising was Projector Inc.’s Uniqlock widget; a downloadable video clock for use on blogs (see CR’s January edition and story here). You can get it here: uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
Wear Palettes
ear Palettes is a color blog, you can find over 1500 color palettes extrapolated from Sartorialist clothing pictures.
